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Answer : Never. Columbus never discovered the United States. The U.S. did not exist until well after Columbus was dead, 1776. Columbus found his way to what we now call North America in the year 1492.

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Christopher Columbus is generally credited with discovering America, of which the US is a part. The US did not exist when Columbus made his voyages of discovery, so he could not discover it. Further, he never landed on any territory that later became part of the US

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The old ditty we learned in 1960s grade school was...

In 14 hundred and 92

Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue...

It was in 1492.

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Christopher Columbus landed on Guanahani Island, Bahamas, which located southeast of Florida, on October 12, 1492. But actually he was searching for India and believed he actually found it.

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He didn't find America. He found Hispanolia. He never knew North America existed

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He never found America. He found the Bahamas that is all.

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1492

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1462

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I don’t know

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